Chiantishire Life

The hills are on fire... no sound of music.

Life in Chianti in January is very quiet. There are hardly any tourists, many shops and restaurants close and when a cold wind like today whistles through the vineyards everyone is happy to stay home in front of chimney.

Of course, if you have a dog to take care of then you do need to leave the fire every once in a while (grrrr). But we've had some spectacular days:

The puddles were frozen and the air bit my ears but man, what a VIEW!

And when you have the cutest dog in the world, how can you say 'No'?!

I can haz a cookie?!

Not that you ever would dare to say 'No' because she will EAT you:

She was actually just yawning. But don't tell any potential burglars!

This weekend we were going to have a pizza party for a friend's birthday but he got sick unfortunately (hope you feel better soon John!) and so we ate a lot of pizza by ourselves.  Everyone got to make one, or at least choose their toppings starting with a "Pizza Maialona" designed by Piri:

Pig on a pizza, yummy...

A heart-shaped "Pizza Vegetariana" collaboration from the Schmitt sister's:

I'm getting hungry looking at all these pizza pictures.

and a lethal concoction dreamed up by Guido with Nutella, banana and grappa which he then proceeded to light on fire in honor of the absent birthday boy. Unfortunately the picture doesn't do it justice because it was pitch black except for the pizza flambé:

Here be Pizza Flambé.

The absolute star of the evening was Bruno though. If he keeps this up we can enter him into the Junior Pizza Olympics soon:

Masterchef Junior, here we come!
Desert is ready everyone, grab it while it's hot!